Revision of <em>Bootstrapping GLIB with MinGW</em> from <em>2011, September 28 - 12:33</em>

Reason:

There is a circular dependency between GLIB and the pkg_config packages. In order to overcome the lack of the dependencies you must do a bootstrap method. This requires some basic knowledge of how to overcome the requirement of pkg_config within the GLIB configure process by telling the configure script where to find some things that pkg_config would have given it.

Requirements:

Using mingw-get install

gcc

g++

libiconv

zlib

libz

msys

msys-perl

msys-m4

Install python-2.7 and point your PATH to the installation directory e.g. /c/python as well as /c/python/DLLs.

Download the source, build and install libffi

cd /path/to/libffi/source

mkdir bld

cd bld

../configure --prefix=/mingw

make && make install

Building GLIB without PKG_CONFIG:

cd /path/to/glib/source

mkdir bld

cd bld

export LIBFFI_CFLAGS='-I /mingw/lib/libffi-VERSION/include'

VERSION is to be replaced with whatever version you built above.

For me VERSION is 3.0.10.

export LIBFFI_LIBS=-lffi

../configure --prefix=/mingw --with-pcre=internal

lengthy amount of time later

make

lengthy amount of time later

make install

Hopefully

If all goes well you should now be able to build pkg_config and install it. Then come back to GLIB and rebuild it.